Some pundits say it will take a second take-over of senate seats in 2012 to give a majority in the senate to Republicans. Vulnerabilities will depend on economic and social status of the country by then.

To help set the country back on the right truck it will require a Republicqn senate majority in 2010 to avoid the avoid the deadlock which looks it may be.

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi* urged the U.S. and our Western allies to put human rights at the forefront of upcoming negotiations with Iran, despite attempts by Tehran in recent days to start a new round of talks focusing solely on Iran’s nuclear programs.

* (Alan note:) Long time Mullah shill who switched from a lukewarm, confusing anti-regime stance for which she was rewarded with the Nobel prize (as per Obama's) to a Mullah stalking horse to deceive the West.

At first blush she enjoyed the Nobel limelight and it took the Mullahs breaking her leg to suck her into becoming their agent. She was then allowed by them (as the stalking horse) to spout publicly about women's rights and could criticize the regime in that narrow field.

After that, she spoke publicly at Universities in the USA and acted as an agent of disinformation to the extent that extra security was needed on occasion to protect her from angry anti-regime protestors.

The backstory to this from author Ken Timmerman:

there was not a single advocate of regime change invited to this conference, which was funded by George Soros, apparently as a means of resuscitating what I have called the “dead parrot” of reform. This notion still remains a favorite of the State Department and Voice of America’s Persian service*.

Speaking at a conference on Iranian human rights issues at the University of Maryland on Saturday, Ebadi said that President Barack Obama should emulate the behavior of President Ronald Reagan, who would bring out a list of Soviet dissidents and demand their freedom every time he met with Soviet leaders.

“The government of Iran is using the nuclear issue as an excuse to cover up its human rights violations,” Ebadi said, speaking through a translator in response to a question from Newsmax. “So I am glad that the Obama administration named eight senior Iranian government officials as human rights violators and barred them from coming to the United States.”

Alan note: with his other hand Obama has invited radical clerics who were long banned from entry to the USA with unlimited visas as well as a long list of radical Islamic Iranian clerics so the "barring" is pure sham window dressing.

She urged the European Union to take similar steps, including the recent announcement by the Department of Treasury that it would seize any assets it could find belonging to Iranian government officials that had been designated as responsible for the brutal crack-down on dissidents since the disputed June 2009 presidential elections in Iran.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran doesn’t want its human rights violations to be revealed,” she said. “So my recommendations to you is that you bring this information to the news.”

Ebadi has been walking a tight-rope in recent appearances in the United States and Europe, careful not to break openly with the regime while seeking to bring outside pressure to bear on Tehran.

She left Iran last year after the regime launched a brutal crackdown on dissidents protesting the disputed 2009 presidential elections, broke into her house, and seized her Nobel prize.

Alan note: similar to their setting the scene for a background for their other infiltrators like Akbar Ganji, Abbas Forouhar, Mohammad Mohammadi etc.

While urging the regime to release all political prisoners, she called those in jail “assets of the Islamic Republic,” and “good children of the revolution,” rather than calling them children of Iran or assets of the freedom movement.

However, in prepared remarks she made an explicit call for the inclusion of Iran’s minorities – who many demographers believe now constitute a majority of Iran’s total population.

“Iran is the country of all Iranians, be they Kurd, Turk, Balouch, Arab speakers, or others,” she said. The central government should “respect the cultural and religious diversity” of the country.

Like most of the participants at the University of Maryland conference, Ebadi has championed the notion that the Tehran regime can be reformed from within and does not need to be overthrown.

Vigorous protests or violence would only give the regime “an excuse on national security grounds” to launch further violent crackdowns, she said.

Alan note: the usual bogey man fear mongering to protect the regime. The regime does NOT need any excuse to be brutal and murderous.

Other participants at the conference blasted former president George W. Bush while praising Obama, even though Obama remained silent for two weeks as millions of Iranians called out for U.S. support during last June’s mass protests against

“Obama is much better than his predecessor,” said Mansour Farhang, a former UN ambassador of the Islamic Tehran regime.

Farhang blasted Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt as the world’s greatest human rights violators, and said the U.S. had no right to advocate human rights causes in Iran because it supported countries whose human rights records were “abominable.”

Iraj Gorgin, the former head of Radio Farda, the Persian service of Radio Free Europe, agreed. “From my long experience as a journalist, I have seen that government involvement in human rights causes could backfire.”

Reformists* in Tehran have consistently made similar arguments, hoping to retain their legitimacy with the Islamic elites in Tehran by distancing themselves from the West. Any outside assistance will get activists “branded as foreign agents,” argued Davar Ardalan, a National Public Radio producer.

* Reformists are part of the Islamic regime but want to reform from within not change it.

During the Bush administration, the reformistsused these arguments to urge Congress to cut off pro-democracy funding intended to help social and political activists inside Iran.

Alan note:under Obama they have successfully cut off these funds!

But when mass demonstrations erupted last year to protest a fraudulent election, there was no national organization in waiting that could capitalize on the popular unrest and transform it into an effective social and political movement capable of challenging the regime.

“We welcome the approach of President Obama to name top Iranian government officials as human rights violators,” said Hadi Ghaeimi, executive director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.

“We have to get rid of the nuclear issue,” he told Newsmax. “Since 2003, the Islamic Republic has been using the nuclear issue to put a heavy shadow over human rights issues. In effect, they have Iran’s nuclear development programs rather than on human rights abuses.

The conference organizers acknowledged that the three-day conference was made possible by funding from George Soros.

Making simple, lightweight, strong as concrete bricks has lots of potential - if as the French lady indicates - a steady, large supply of hemp (often banned for drug control reasons) were available. Even woven jute or hemp shirts are a forbidden item in the USA.

An amusing side story comes from a region of Iran where growing "shah dooneh" (royal seeds) - the agricultural reason for growing hemp - spend all winter high as a kite.

In villages around Iran where heating a family home becomes prohibitivly expensive in winter, families dedicate a room for a "korsi". This consists of a thick, heavy, cotton filled comforter the size of the room, which rests on a table in the very middle.

Under that table they place a brazier to burn charcoal or other slow burning materials. With the table made high enough to raise the center and allow heat to travel under the comforter to the edge of the room, under which the family sits on cushions with their back leaning on the walls (and other cushions), this becomes the winter living room, dining room and also the communal bedroom.

Thus everyone remains comfortably warm with a single bazier throughout the day and night.

The twist here comes from their using cut down bits of the long hemp stems in the braziers and filling the room with more than carbon fumes. The hemp also exudes narcotic fumes keeping them extra happy all winter.

Consider the founding Monarchy and over the years what developed and exists now in Islamic Iran, which started with the Islamic take over of the country. At no time, even at its worst did any monarchy come close to the brutality, bestiality (the leaders of the current regime are worse than animals), bigotry and ruthless disregard for any human except themselves.

Here in the USA, still officially in the closet yet fervent, dedicated Moslem with Communist tendencies, Oba-Hussein has a similar mentality to the Islamic Iran regime but has been unable to implement his radical mindsets because of U.S. Constitutional freedoms hampering him.

However, with Congressman Rangel submitting a bill in Congress to provide Obama with a Civilian Security Force (with which to attack us "we the people" as they would be sworn in with their oath to the Presidency and not the Constitution)

With the Lame Duck session of Congress potentially full of Democrats who lost their seats and no longer care nor have re-election concerns, they will vote for the scorched earth bills that Pelosi and Reid will create to try to ensure that the Republican majority that will take over in January will face unresolvable challenges.

The Democrats in Congress have shown how little they feel loyalty to the Constitution or for our country so expect the very worst.

Bills passing by voice votes where a small squeak from the Democrats is counted as being louder than a roar from Republicans, where bills that have not even been written - like the annual national budget are DEEMED TO HAVE PASSED even though they do not even exist and bills like 2,000+ page Obamacare that were passed without being read by Congressmen or Senators, all indicate what to expe next Congress and from the month long Lame Duck session. POTENTIAL DISASTER for our nation through running a flurry of huge bills down our throats - full of landmines for the next Congress.

A civil war warning may be premature but not out of the question as opposition to Obama and his radical mindsets spreads and flares up and he throws his Civil Security Forces at us. In "self-defence". Watch for a potential decree of martial law to suspend out rights while he rules by decree and when the regular military refuses to obey, he inserts his "personal" civilian force army into the mix.

VIDEO shows protesters using both English and Persian to make their point.

Jimmy the "idiot" Carter came to Los Angeles for a book signing event for his latest self-praising publication and ran into an explosive Persian protest against him both as a person and for his backing of Ayatollah Khomeini, which in the minds of Persians destroyed their country Iran.

Their protest also included angry slogans at his pro-terrorist HAMAS Palestinians activities and mindset, which they relate as similar to his misgjuided support of the Ayatollahs, who in their minds have turned their beloved Iran into the Islamic terrorist regime from whom they have had to flee all over the world, including to the USA.

At one point they sing an old traditional national anthem and show their fury at Carter by demanding he sign books for them and when he refuses and apparently tells them to get lost and throws a book at them, they respond by tearing up his books which were there to be signed.

Much as the Tea Partiers did, cleaning up after themselves at (much bigger) rallies, protesters gathered up the torn books to preserve the cleanliness of area.

In Persian, a microphone toting journalist mentioned that each of the demonstrators was there as their own boss and not dragged there by any particular movement.

Then adds to a strident woman that she is a one woman army all by herself and should not be concerned that even more people had not showed up to brace Carter.

In a mindset similar to those who have buyer's remorse about electing Obama, they shouted slogans of "shame on America for electing someone like Carter" as President.

The SEIU (UNION), Harry Reid, And Voting Problems - Voting Machines are maintained by the UNIONS in Nevada!

NetRightDaily.com

Did you know that the SEIU represents the voting machine technicians in Clark County (Las Vegas), Nevada?

Is it any surprise, as we noted earlier today, that there was a voting glitch in Clark County, Nevada?

The glitch caused Harry Reid’s name to be automatically checked on the ballotbefore voters had indicated who they were supporting.

According to Joyce Ferrara who was an eyewitness to this strange ballot ordeal, the problem was widespread, “One person that’s a fluke. Two, that’s strange. But several within a five minute period of time — that’s wrong.” It is particularly troubling that Clark County has put the uber left-wing SEIU Local 1107 in charge of their voting machines. The agreement between the SEIU and Clark County specifically puts all voting machines under the control ofthe SEIU.

This is another indicator of the CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE in charge of our country under Oba-Hussein and his THUGS.

Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (and some older ones) didn't know this. It's easy to check out, if you don't believe it. Be sure and show it to your kids. They need a little history lesson on what's what and it doesn't matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are Facts!!!

Social Security Cards up until the 1980s expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes (see above). Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the message was removed.[9]

An old Social Security card with the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" message.

Our Social Security

Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. He promised:

1.) That participation in the Program would be Completely voluntary,

No longer Voluntary

2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program,

Now 7.65% on the first $90,000

3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year,

Nolonger tax deductible

4.) That the money the participants put into the independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the general operating fund and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, and,

Under Johnson the money was moved to The General Fund and Spent

5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.

Under Clinton & Gore Up to 85% of your Social Security can be Taxed

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month -- and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to 'put away' -- you may be interested in the following:

------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- -----Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent 'Trust Fund' and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?

A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.

------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- -----Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?

A: The Democratic Party.

------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- -----Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?

A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the 'tie-breaking' deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US

------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- -----Q: Which Political Party decided to startgiving annuity payments to immigrants?

AND MY FAVORITE:

A: That's right!

Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party.

Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!

------------ -- ------------ --------- ----- ------------ Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!

The worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it and believe that the Democrats are "for the people."

If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn't so.

Instead of bowing and kow-towing to foreigners, even if they are a Moslem king and your boss, or any Islamic Head of of State like your Islamic Iranian buddy Ahmadi-Nejad or your Master Soros, stop apologizing to all the wrong people!

Say you are sorry to over 15 million Americans YOUR actions have put out of work and whose children for several generations you have put into debt before they are even born!

Sarah Palin has more sense and love for America in her little finger nail than you have in your whole evil, corrupt embodiment.

After Obama several timesintentionally dropped mention of the word Creator in the reciting the Declaration of Independence preamble in his speeches, his Marxist-Islamist viewpoint, which either denies any celestial diety as a Marxist or insists on Allah rather than the Christian God/Creator as a fervent Islamist, met with an increase in his unpopularity, so he has changed course and once again restored the mention of Creator in recent days.

The Democrats seem oblivious to their support of undeniably destructive policies that labels then as RATS!

It seems to have rubbed off on Joe Biden in this photo of him where his features emulate a rat's. See for your self:

In this video, "we the people" INSIST on the Pledge of Allegiance being recited at this event.

I worked so hard for decades to remain "Senator" - time to send Boxer home!

Was Non-Muslim Woman Target of Chemical Bomb Set Off By Muslim Teen Outside Mosque?

Back on September 23, I reported on a Muslim teen who set off a chemical bomb outside a Maine mosque. All of the islamic supremacist groups were ready to pounce on this "hate crime" until it was discovered, yet again, that it was a Muslim (most of these "attacks" on or near mosques are committed by Muslims). Then the story disappeared.

Had it been a non-Muslim playing with acid bombs outside a mosque, the American people would have been herded into Muslim Brotherhood CAIR camps. But because it was a Muslim boy, no harm, no foul.

Not so fast. Bombs, Muslims = jihad.

Creeping has this creepy update on police and FBI indifference or incompetence. Or is it submission? Via Taqiyya, She Wrote (hat tip Armaros)

Debbie’s story is rather interesting, since she was not only there when the bomb went off, but was possibly targeted.

Debbie is an employee at the Back Bay Grill. Debbie’s explanation is rather different from the news accounts and the D.A. to say the least,

“At about 7:45 I decided to go get my phone charger from my car. The Mosque (The Islamic Society of Portland) back door and parking lot is directly behind the Back Bay grill and it was filled with people and cars.”

“As I walked I saw a van loading up with women and children. The Kids ran in front of me in an obvious scurry and closed the vehicle door.”

Building on left-Islamic society of Portland, building on right-Back Bay Grill

Then she explains about the blast,

“I took several more steps and then the chemical bottle bomb exploded directly in front of me. It stopped me in my tracks. It was exceedingly loud. A child that sounded like it came from the van full of children shouted, in a proud- sort of accomplished way, “He did it! He did it!”

Alan Note: not only has Obama used his brown-nosing pet, Eric Holder's Dept. of Injustice to attack and prevent Arizonian efforts to implement American laws but has also thrown it at overpowering resistance efforts inside Tennessee State to limit a Moslem mosque by providing an uncalled for, pro-mosque "friend of the court - amicus brief" basically sayingit is forbidden by law to resist/oppose Islam (in addition to the notorious New York mosque case) and among other efforts to embed Islam into American law and life but is also using governmental red tapeto prevent opposing/preventing illegal entry into the USA.

A good portion of which includes Islamic terrorists who hide among the smuggled entrants and have formed an estimated 60,000 suicide bomber cells so far in America, waiting to be activated. Or join Obama's one million person Civilian Security Forces to be used against those who oppose him.

In addition to granting multiple visas to radical, militant anti-America CLERICS (MANY FROM IRAN, sent out from the Supreme Ruler's north-east "holy" city of Mashhad in Khorrassan province). They travel around the USA under these "religious" visas, co-ordinating terror and Islamic efforts aimed against the USA and spread of violent Islam into every thread of our society.

In addition to importing tens of thousands of so-called Palestinians as political refugees from their Middle East homes (in the same vein as he arranged for his aunt Zeituni to claim political asylum from hers and his home country of Kenya) he has plans in motion - with just discovered huge fraud by SEIU to register illegal aliens in Arizona (and around the country) to steal the November election for the Democrats.

The article below indicates how over 1200 miles of our Mexican border is no longer controlled or premitted by Obama to be controlled by American authorities.

And if that fails, just watch the plans to do scorched earth damage by the Democrat lame duck Congress and Senate. All the ones who lost their election will still be there in UNBLOCKABLE MAJORITY to vote for vicious, insane, mind-boggling bills, which even a majority win for Republicans and Independents cannpt repair.

And the Obaman Marxist-Islamist plan to see America destroyed will become an unpreventable reality. Or almost so.

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GAO report: Border Patrol's hands tied by Interior, Agriculture rules

By Jordy Yager - 10/23/10

Several White House agencies charged with enforcing environmental laws are preventing thousands of Border Patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border from disrupting illicit trafficking operations, according to a study by the investigative arm of Congress.

The report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that about 15 percent of the 26 Border Patrol stations in the southwestern region say the Interior Department and the Agriculture Department have prevented them from catching illegal aliens coming over the border.

Nearly half of the thousands of miles of the U.S.’s border with Mexico – which saw about 556,000 people cross over it illegally last year – is federally maintained by the Interior Department and the Forest Service, which are charged with upholding the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, the Wilderness Act, and the Endangered Species Act.

Under federal law, before Border Patrol agents can build roads or establish surveillance posts on this land, they must first receive permission from the land managing agencies. This process can take months while the land management agencies conduct tests to ensure the environmental safety of the land and its species, the GAO report said, resulting in the souring of actionable intelligence with the ranks of the Border Patrol.

“These delays in gaining access have generally lessened agents’ ability to detect undocumented aliens in some areas, according to the patrol agents-in-charge,” the report states.

In Arizona, for example, Border Patrol agents said it took four months to obtain permission from the appropriate agencies to move a mobile surveillance system, leaving a 7-mile range of border unwatched over the course of those 16 weeks. By the time the agents received permission, the illegal traffic had shifted to other areas, the report stated.

In New Mexico, a Border Patrol agent told the GAO that it took agencies EIGHT months to conduct an historic property assessment in an area where the Border Patrol needed a road to be improved so they could move an underground sensor.

“During this period, agents could not patrol in vehicles or use surveillance equipment to monitor an area that illegal aliens were known to use,” the report reads.

But despite the delays and restrictions that the Border Patrol has reported, 85 percent of its working force along the border said that “the overall security status of their jurisdiction is not affected by land management laws.”

The report’s findings come in the wake of an announcement made earlier this week by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano saying that arrests of illegal border-crossers has declined for the fifth year in a row, down some 72 percent from 2000 levels. Napolitano attributed the decline in border arrests to a weak economy and stronger levels of enforcement by the U.S.

Over the past five years the Border Patrol has nearly doubled the number of agents that patrol the U.S.-Mexico border to its current size of 20,500 and the Department of Homeland Security has spent about $1.6 billion to provide technological resources to the area*.

*Apparently to build SEVEN miles of "virtual fence" which has now been abandoned and the money truly wasted.

Nearly three months ago President Obama ordered 1,200 National Guard troops to descend on the region to protect the border *, as violent crime continues to rise in Mexico and fear of spillover aggression stokes the fears of U.S. residents.

Friday, October 22, 2010

The 'Fannie and Freddie' News May Be Hard to Overcome Ed Carson at Investor's Business Daily notes that taxpayers are having to shoulder a bigger load to keep the mortgage finance giants alive, and that can only be "bad news" for the incumbent: "Frank bet big, and taxpayers are still paying. Time voters asked the 15-term congressman to get out of his seat and leave the table."

What a kook this Madcow has become. She accuses a Congressman on having prior knowledge of the Oklahoma City bombing !

“Smoking Gun” Letter reveals Henry Waxman helped anti war group that aided the enemy in Iraq

LOS ANGELES – California 30th Congressional District candidate Charles “Chuck” Wilkerson is calling for a U.S. Justice Department probe into official conduct by U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman that helped an American anti war group gain entry into Iraq where it distributed aid to families of insurgents fighting U.S. troops.

“The letter posted by Andrew Breitbart today is a smoking gun,” Wilkerson said today. “It’s bad enough having Henry Waxman vote against funding our troops in combat, but to actively assist getting aid to people who killed and wounded Americans on the battlefield is beyond forgiveness. If aid and comfort were given to the enemy, this borders on treason.” American Thinker Oct. 19, 2010http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/10/an_enemy_within_code_pink_and.html

492,000 governmental workers to be laid off in Britain, so they can get a handle on the runaway spending. And what are the Democrats doing in this country ? They are adding to the governmental payroll, and giving generous raises to the existing ones ! Nuts...

"Thank God that weak guy Obama is in the White House, as this allows us to do whatever evil we want to do without any challenge", said Chavez to Ahmadinejad.

This is hard to fake and is very chilling....... who was driving?
This video shows the limousine chauffeur that takes President J.F.K. and his wife, November 22nd 1963 in Dallas, Texas, shooting the gun backward with his left hand.

Was this the video that the CIA did not show to the public? And did you ask yourself why was Jackie trying to run away towards the trunk, away from the front of the car? And why was JFKs skull wound in the front, when supposedly Oswald shot him from the back??

Is this the "second shooter" or the first?

Interesting..........

No, I do not know the name of the driver as one commenter asked, but it should be easy enough for authorities to identify and proceed accordingly if this video is an accurate rendition of events.

For centuries, the Copts — Egypt's Christian, indigenous inhabitants — have been subject to persecution, discrimination, humiliation, and over all subjugation in their homeland (etymologically, "Copt" simply means "Egyptian").

In the medieval era, such treatment was a standard aspect of sharia's dhimmi codes, first ratified under Caliph Omar in the 7th century and based on Koran 9:29. Conversely, during the colonial era and into the mid 20th century, as Egypt experimented with westernization and nationalism, religious discrimination was markedly subdued.

Today, however, as Egypt all but spearheads the Islamist movement — giving the world Sayyid Qutb, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Aymen Zawahiri in the process — that is, as Egypt reverts to its medieval character, the Copts find themselves again in a period of severe persecution. And there appears to be no one to stop it — not even those most accountable: America's friend and ally, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his government. Indeed, recent events indicate that the Mubarak regime is intentionally inciting Egypt's Muslims against the Copts.

(Alan note: under pressure from the Islamic Oba-Hussein regime in America?)

Incidentally, last week, one of the harshest hard line ayatollahs, little short guy, hardly taller than the Kalechnikov weapon he espouses, with his Napoleonic complex, has CRITICIZED the regime for the astronomic rise in utility prices.

Water and electricity, promised by ayatollah Khomeini to be provided for free (to gain support) has recently quadrupled in price among a population increasingly hit by crippling inflation and loss of jobs.

Or many with jobs (usually most have to hold down three anyway to make ends meet) not being paid for months and beginning to strike in protest. Making a bad situation worse.

U.S. attorney: Nothing Americans can do about eligibility - (Americans have no "standing" to sue for the Constitution)

By Bob Unruh

A team of U.S. attorneys based in California has argued (at taxpayer expense) to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that there essentially is nothing the American public can do to determine if Barack Obama is qualified under the U.S. Constitution's demand for a "natural born citizen" in the Oval Office, and if they are injured, at least they are all injured alike.

The arguments were presented in a brief submitted by U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. and his assistants Roger West and David DeJute in defense of a lawsuit that was brought by a long list of plaintiffs, including a presidential candidate, members of the military, members of the state legislature and others against Obama.

The plaintiffs had asked the appeals court to reopen the arguments because the district court's ruling, (if) left standing, would strip minorities in the United States of "all political power" and leave laws to be based "upon the whims of the majority."

That earlier brief was filed by Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation, who is representing Wiley S. Drake, a vice presidential candidate on the 2008 ballot in California, and Markham Robinson, an elector from the state.

The case involves several dozen additional plaintiffs, including ambassador Alan Keyes, who are being represented by California attorney Orly Taitz and are filing their pleadings separately from those on behalf of Drake and Robinson.

The case challenges Obama's eligibility to be president, citing a lack of documentation, and was the subject of hearings at the lower court level, where Judge David Carter heard arguments.

However, Carter dismissed the case, ruling that the plaintiffs suffered no injury – they didn't have "standing" – and that the law left it to Congress to sort out eligibility issues instead of a court.

The new government brief said that the lower court was correct because "appellants cannot demonstrate a particularized injury-in-fact traceable to defendants' conduct as would be necessary to establish standing."

The (U.S.) attorneys brushed off concerns that a violation of the Constitution was a serious matter and caused any injury to the plaintiffs, saying, "To put it another way, the relief sought by appellants, consisting of a determination by the court of the eligibility of the president to hold office, and, possibly, his removal from office, would have 'no more directly and tangibly benefitted [them] than … the public at large."

Further, the U.S. attorneys argued that a possible violation of the Constitution is a political issue, not judicial.

"Even assuming arguendo, that some of the purported 'injuries' alleged by appellants satisfied the Article III requirement of 'injury-in-fact,' the district court correctly held that no (single) appellant could demonstrate that any injury complained of could be redressed by a court," they continued. "The political question doctrine precludes redress to any appellant, because such redress would improperly arrogate to this court jurisdiction over political questions as to the eligibility of the president which the Constitution entrusts exclusively to the House and Senate.

"The political question doctrine serves to 'restrain the judiciary from inappropriate interference in the business of the other branches of government ' by prohibiting the courts from deciding issues that properly rest within the province of the political branches," they said.

Their document was unresponsive to the issue raised by the plaintiffs that courts have authority to remove an elected chief executive officer should he be documented as ineligible.

The plaintiffs' brief cited the removal of Thomas H. Moodie from the office of governor in North Dakota in the 1930s as proof that a government's chief officer can be removed from office by the courts – even after an election and inauguration. Moodie had failed to meet a state residency requirement to be governor. But he was elected anyway and installed, and ultimately removed from office by the court over that failure.

The plaintiffs also cite an earlier California case in which a candidate for president actually was removed from the ballot by state officials because he failed to qualify for the office under the Constitution's age requirements.

But the tax-paid U.S. attorneys said in defense of Obama that "disputes involving political questions lie outside of the Article III jurisdiction of federal courts."

"The issues sought to be raised by appellants herein, regarding both whether President Obama is a 'natural born citizen of the United States' and therefore eligible to be president as well as any purported claims raised by any criminal statutes … are to be judged, according to the text of the Constitution, by the legislative branch of the government, and not the judicial," they said.

They argued it is "preposterous" for the plaintiffs (We the People) to seek a ruling that Obama is not eligible and therefore "should be removed from office."

(Alan note: or as a military court judge said in dismissing a motion for discovery "it would embarrass Obama" to permit it!)

"The district court correctly found that litigation of the issues sought to be raised by appellants below would constitute a great intrusion by the court into the political life of the other branches," they said.

As for a quo warranto claim, they argued, that could only be filed in Washington, where the district courts have said the government, not individuals, is responsible for bringing such a claim.

The plaintiffs had argued that the Constitution was too important to ignore.

"A provision of the Constitution may not be disregarded by means of a popular vote of the people," the plaintiffs' earlier brief said, "as there are specific guidelines for amending the Constitution of the United States … Even if the people of the United States voted to elect as president a candidate who did not qualify for the position, that vote would not be sufficient to overcome the constitutional requirements for office and make that candidate eligible.

(Alan note: theoretically thus allowing FOREIGN BORN Vladimir Putin of Russia or Governor Schwarzenegger of California to be elected President of the USA).

"Here, the underlying issue is one arising under the Art. 2, Paragraph 1 of the United States Constitution, whether Obama meets the eligibility requirements … As established above, plaintiffs have standing to bring this action as they have suffered a concrete injury in fact, caused by Obama's ineligibility for the office of United States president, for which the court has a remedy."

The issue stems from the constitutional demand that the president – unlike others in the federal government – must be a "natural born citizen." WND has covered a multitude of challenges and lawsuits over Obama's eligibility. Some have alleged that he was not born in Hawaii in 1961 as he has written, or that the framers of the Constitution specifically excluded dual citizens – Obama's father was a subject of the British crown at Obama's birth – from being eligible for the office.

Besides Obama's actual birth documentation, still-withheld documentation for him includes kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, medical records, his files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records and his adoption records.

(Alan note: the cases against Obama were filed against him as a private citizen - not as president - so his use of U.S. Attorneys at taxpayer expense is also a breach of law).

=================================================ISNA is an official Islamic Iranian New Agency and their English could be better and the truth of their comments and opinions is highly questionable! Their DISinformation is aimed BOTH at the Iranian populace and foreign viewers. This often results in different versions of the same news in Farsi and in English.

TEHRAN (ISNA)-Iranian Prosecutor General Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei said the country has arrested two foreign nationals who conducted an interview with the son of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani who was sentenced to death following killing her husband and adultery.

"Two nationals of a foreign country conducted an interview with son of Ashtiani, but investigations showed that the two individuals were not reporters or at least they did not carry any official credentials confirming they are reporters," Ejei told a press conference.

"Initial explorations show that the two people entered Iran as tourists and asked certain questions from Sakineh Mohammad's son, but they are now detained."

Also regarding the abduction of a driver alleged to be a nuclear scientist, Ejei said, "he is not a scientist, he was a welder, but he then left his job and chose to work on a lorry, but then kidnapped by evil-doers."

The Head of Justice Department of central Iranian city of Esfahan Gholam Reza Ansari has already dismissed report on link between abduction of an Iranian individual with Jundullah terrorist group.

He denied claim that Shirani has been one of employees of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI).

"Abduction of Amir Hossein Shirani seems to be related to private financial disagreements with drug smugglers of southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan and has nothing to do with Jundullah group," Ansari told ISNA.

Jundullah terrorist group has released a statement claiming that it has abducted one of the nuclear employees of Iranian city of Isfahan.

ISNA - Tehran
Service: Foreign Policy

TEHRAN (ISNA)-Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said the case of two German nationals would be pursued in framework of law and judicial system.

The two foreign nationals were captured in Iran following an interview with the son of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani who was accused of killing her husband and adultery.

"The issue of the two German nationals would be pursued in framework of law and judicial system," Mottaki said in a meeting with his German counterpart Guido Westerwelle on the sidelines of Friends of Democratic Pakistan meeting at European Council Headquarters in Brussels on Friday.

Westerwellle on his part referred to the two arrested German nationals who entered Iran with tourist visa but captured after the unconventional measure and called for Islamic compassion about them.

Westerwellle then turned to Iran's nuclear issue and called the country's agreement on talks with P5+1 a "constructive and positive approach" and expressed hope such dialogue could present new opportunities to the two sides.

This was the third meeting of the two officials over recent years.

"Unfortunately, P5+1 lost the chance of New York for talks at ministerial level, however October or November can be a good time for negotiation," Mottaki said referring to the UN General Assembly meeting in New York in September.

Also in a meeting with Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon, Mottaki lashed out at the West double standards on human rights and stressed a change in unfair international structures.

He said, "Canada's sponsorship of human rights resolution against Iran over recent years is a politically-motivated measure."

He emphasized respect for viewpoints of other religions and cultures and rapped the West for imposition of human rights views which is based on liberal democracy.

Canadian Foreign Minister on his part called for banning drug transit from Afghanistan and said the two countries can work on the issue closely.

Also in another session with Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, the two sides stressed expansion of ties in all fields.

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For many years involved with intelligence and security matters in Iran with significant access at top levels during the rule of the Shah, until early 1979. Currently an Iran SME (subject matter expert), analyst/commentator, and multi-linguist.